-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2008-10-07 at 15:01 +0300, Bogdan Cristea wrote:

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My guess is they do it as flash to impede users from getting a usable personal copy.

Yes, you could have right :)

BTW is there a flash player with print option ? I use gnash as flash player because the flash player from Adobe seems to be brocken in openSuSE 11.0 x86_64

Ah! Bad luck, I'm using 11.0 32 bits, with the "normal" flash: cer@nimrodel:~> rpm -qa | grep -i flash flash-player-9.0.124.0-10.1 libflashsupport-000-67.1 What I have done in the past is print page by page of the flash presentation, setting the default cups printer in linux to print to file: lpadmin -p tf0 -v file:/tmp/print2file.ps -E -P /usr/share/cups/model/Postscript.ppd.gz I read of this either in the SDB or on some email on this list time ago. It has some dangers, though. The postscript file is always the same (and owned by root), so you have to move it somewhere else before proceeding with the next page. For this, I modified "/etc/sudoers": cer nimrodel= (root) NOPASSWD: /bin/chmod g+r /tmp/print2file.ps And then I wrote a small script to copy that file to another directory with an incremental name and convert to pdf and png in background. later I'd have to join all those page to a single PDF, or import the png to an oowriter file. Very tedious :-( - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjrVvoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VX7wCglag+EG37ZvS9VJLfjDe1uiZj kP4AnA86xKCgwgPb/TizYJ/bPPlEtB2P =FwlA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 15:01:56 Alexey Eremenko wrote:

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On Tuesday, 2008-10-07 at 14:44 +0300, Bogdan Cristea wrote:

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Is there a way to convert a technical presentation from shockwave flash to PDF? Originally the presentation was created in PowerPoint, then someone created a shockwave flash file adding also sound (presenter comments). I need to print these slides for further reference. thanks

I think it is impossible, because Flash has animations and interactivity, while PDF has none.

-- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

Well, if you can edit the swf file it should be possible to build a PDF file from selected frames. -- Bogdan Cristea software engineer Sytron Technologies Overseas www.sytron.ro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2008-10-07 at 14:18 +0200, Neil wrote:

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I'd try to use mplayer/mencoder to export the frames as jpegs and import those into whatever you want. Mplayer can play the .swf files and should be able to export to jpegs (since it can do anything upto getting you new beer, if you know how to work it's knobs)

<google attempt>

This site: http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/tutorial-playing-around-with-mplayer (somewhere 3/4 of the way) says it could be done by something like: mplayer -vo jpeg

However, it comes with a warning

"Warning: the above command will output a huge amount of jpeg files. I strongly recommend to do this in a freshly made, empty directory created for this purpose."

Because the presentation will have only a low frame rate this MAY not be a big deal. However if the makers decided there should be 20 frames per second (or the software was that stupid) and you have 45 minutes of presentation the resulting mount of pictures will be: 45*60*20=54000....... So be forewarned. Although maybe there is some way to test with only a couple of seconds of swf.

Interesting. Maybe it can be converted to some other kind of video, one that you can browse forward and back, and then print to file selected frames. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjrWAoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UAiQCfXLkedpBN8A1uS0XEYlsuVk6L RPsAn36lwyimsI8jSxXR5incy7lRjI45 =6Y6n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Tuesday, 2008-10-07 at 14:18 +0200, Neil wrote:

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Hi

I'd try to use mplayer/mencoder to export the frames as jpegs and import those into whatever you want. Mplayer can play the .swf files and should be able to export to jpegs (since it can do anything upto getting you new beer, if you know how to work it's knobs)

<google attempt>

This site: http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/tutorial-playing-around-with-mplayer (somewhere 3/4 of the way) says it could be done by something like: mplayer -vo jpeg

However, it comes with a warning

"Warning: the above command will output a huge amount of jpeg files. I strongly recommend to do this in a freshly made, empty directory created for this purpose."

Because the presentation will have only a low frame rate this MAY not be a big deal. However if the makers decided there should be 20 frames per second (or the software was that stupid) and you have 45 minutes of presentation the resulting mount of pictures will be: 45*60*20=54000....... So be forewarned. Although maybe there is some way to test with only a couple of seconds of swf.

Interesting.

Maybe it can be converted to some other kind of video, one that you can browse forward and back, and then print to file selected frames.

- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

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Hi

yes it can. If you google a bit you'll find a lot of pages explaning a bit of how to handle mencoder

mencoder movie.swf -o movie.mpg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -of mpeg

is the solution as offered by http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_MEncoder_Tips_and_Tricks (although I changed movie.wmv to movie.swf) to convert to .mpg.

Neil

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OK, let's come back to the topic. See, *.swf can be convert to which kind of file just based on what contained in the swf If, you just want images, it is easy to print it to *.pdf While if you r going to make the video.swf to pdf, Hard. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org